At 30 June 2013, there were 6.2 million mobile wireless broadband connections in Australia, an increase of 3% since the end of December 2012. Mobile wireless broadband was again the most prevalent internet technology in Australia, accounting for half of all connections.

Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) connections increased by 1% over the same period, to 4.8 million connections.

In percentage terms, Fibre was the fastest growing type of internet access connection, increasing by 26% since the end of December 2012, to 115,000 connections at 30 June 2013.

Internet subscribers by type of access connection(a)(b), for ISPs with more than 1,000 subscribers

Jun 2012

Dec 2012

Jun 2013

'000

'000

'000

Dial-up connections

439

282

227

Broadband connections

DSL

4 632

4 727

4 787

Cable

917

918

934

Fibre

52

91

115

Satellite

94

92

93

Fixed wireless

30

49

49

Mobile wireless

5 862

5 995

6 150

Other

10

7

3

All broadband connections

11 597

11 879

12 131

Total number of subscribers

12 036

12 161

12 358

(a) Dial-up and broadband figures reported by type of access connection may not equal figures collected by advertised download speeds, due to some broadband connections being reported as less than 256kbps.

(b) Data reported by type of access connection may be influenced by cyclical factors, such as educational semesters. This could impact on the data reported at each reference period of the IAS, namely 30 June and 31 December, particularly for types of access connection where relatively small numbers are reported.

ISP CENSUS

The June 2013 iteration of the Internet Activity Survey is a full census of all ISPs operating in Australia. Comparison is made between June 2013 Census and the previous census cycle, conducted in respect of June 2010.

In June 2013 there were 12,408,000 internet subscribers in Australia, compared to 9,569,000 in June 2010.

The proportion of internet subscribers with access connection via dial-up was 2% in June 2013, compared with 8% in June 2010. The proportion of connections that were DSL decreased to 39% in June 2013 from 44% in June 2010, and subscribers with access connection via mobile wireless broadband increased to 50% of all connections in June 2013, from 36% in June 2010.

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